Professional Journey of an Engineer to Civil Servant with expertise in Accounting
Dr. AJAY S. SINGH is an Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) 1994 batch officer. From MBM he is the first officer to join ICAS. He is currently working as Director (Finance) on deputation from Government of India in Punatsangchhu-I Hydroelectric Project Authority, and additional charge of Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project Authority, Bhutan. He has worked in different capacities in the Ministry of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation, Labour & Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Power etc. He has handled budgeting, payment, accounting, internal audit in the ministries and direct benefit transfer under the schemes like MGNREGA, PMAY, PMGSY, DDUGKY, NSAP, SBM, IWMP, Skill India, EPS, Labour welfare schemes etc. Earlier as Director, Multi-lateral Institution, Department of Economic Affairs, he handled loan portfolio of ADB and World Bank and country affairs in African Development Bank (AfDB). He has represented India in the Board of AfDB and SASEC of ADB.
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Er. Jhilmil Kochar: The woman of Substance
She represented the school and Jodhpur district in the high jump, 400m relay race, and 200m in classes VII, VIII, and IX. Got the opportunity to represent Rajasthan in class X in National level sports camp, but her father refused due to Boards that year. She was the school sports captain in Class XI. Since childhood, an avid fiction reader, and sketcher, all the walls of her house used to be decorated with her sketches. She would draw cartoons of her teachers in class, and get punished. Just before the examinations of the XI-th board, she suffered from Typhoid and was forbidden to touch books for more than 25 days. Everyone thought she would barely scrape through the boards. But when the results were out, lo and behold, she not only cleared the examinations with 94%, but bagged 3rd rank in the merit list in the science stream in Rajasthan Board. Earlier, in the X-th board she bagged 7th rank in merit list with 90% aggregate; in B.Sc. First-year, she was the topper of her class. The protagonist of our story is immensely talented, versatile and an accomplished professional Er. Jhilmil Banerjee Kochar. MBM alumnus, Er. Kochar completed her BE in the year 1990 with a gold medal in Electronics & Communications branch. In this edition, we have chronicled the fascinating and inspirational journey of Er. Kochar.
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